About vala ========== valac, the Vala compiler, is a self-hosting compiler that translates Vala source code into C source and header files. It uses the GObject type system to create classes and interfaces declared in the Vala source code.
The syntax of Vala is similar to C#, modified to better fit the GObject type system. Vala supports modern language features as the following: Interfaces, Properties, Signals, Foreach, Lambda expressions, Type inference for local variables, Generics, Non-null types, Assisted memory management, Exception handling, Type modules (Plugins) Vala is designed to allow access to existing C libraries, especially GObject-based libraries, without the need for runtime bindings. All that is needed to use a library with Vala is an API file, containing the class and method declarations in Vala syntax. Vala currently comes with bindings for GLib and GTK+ and many others from the GNOME Platform. Using classes and methods written in Vala from an application written in C is not difficult. The Vala library only has to install the generated header files and C applications may then access the GObject- based API of the Vala library as usual. It should also be easily possible to write a bindings generator for access to Vala libraries from applications written in e.g. C# as the Vala parser is written as a library, so that all compile-time information is available when generating a binding. News ==== * Various improvements and bug fixes: - vala: + Fix base-access check for compact classes (2) + Don't ignore errors in Parameter and acknowledge them further + Properly set CodeNode.error when reporting an error - girparser: Report a warning for conflicting class and instance methods - testrunner: Invalid tests and therefore expected failures must return 1 - manual: Update from wiki.gnome.org * Bindings: - Add harfbuzz-gobject binding [#909] - gstreamer: Update from 1.17.0+ git master - gtk+-*.0,gtk4: Fix iter parameter of TextIter.order() [#908] - gtk4: Update to 3.98.0+410dbdf6 - pango: Update and add harfbuzz-gobject as dependency - webkit2gtk-4.0: Update to 2.27.90 ChangeLog ========= https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.47/vala-0.47.91.changes (1.24K) Download ======== https://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.47/vala-0.47.91.tar.xz (3.26M) sha256sum: 14090fcd17867d7f961245849b3358df3fc8879f2c7ed620c46ab56d98d0790a _______________________________________________ ftp-release-list mailing list ftp-release-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ftp-release-list